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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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5 days ago
Remote, ChileSenior

Responsibilities

  • Architect, upgrade, design, and build scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS, RDS, and distributed systems patterns.
  • Drive infrastructure roadmap initiatives focused on reliability, recoverability, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Perform capacity planning, benchmarking, stress testing, bottleneck analysis, and growth preparation.
  • Define and maintain SLAs, alerts, anomaly detection, observability, and operational standards.
  • Lead AI enablement efforts for infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling.
  • Build consistency and scalability across distributed microservices while maintaining performance and reliability.
  • Establish engineering practices for observability, security, and CI/CD.
  • Mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, lead complex initiatives, and collaborate on technical roadmaps.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience, including significant SRE and backend experience.
  • Recent experience deploying significant changes to a production application or infrastructure configuration within the past 30 days.
  • Strong Golang proficiency and experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
  • Expertise with SQL-based relational databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL, and experience optimizing schemas and queries at scale.
  • Proficiency with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and New Relic.
  • Understanding of distributed systems patterns including transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, stream processing, and queues.
  • Ability to introduce ideas, influence decisions, and lead complex technical initiatives.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, especially AWS Aurora RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
  • Preferred experience with data engineering, data pipelines, data warehousing, CI/CD pipelines, containerized Kubernetes microservices, and AI developer tooling.
  • Track record of shipping commercial APIs and data-driven applications and guiding technical direction for high-traffic services.

Benefits

  • Monthly gross compensation of $7000-$12000 USD.
  • Full-time remote role.
  • Career advancement opportunities in a rapidly growing team.
  • Autonomous role with significant authority over infrastructure and operational improvements.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogElasticsearchGitGoGrafanaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactReact NativeTypeScript

Categories

Site Reliability
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